The diversity of the landscapes linked to a convergence of biogeographical influences(continental, mountain, mediterranean), as well as a privileged situation in relation to the main migration routes of European avifauna, give this territory an important heritage value.

...known nationally and internationally

The Regional Nature Park constitutes one of the 17 French sites recognized by the international community as a humid zone of international importance, notably for water birds, according to the Ramsar Convention . The Park also has several sites of communal interest that is for the birds or the habitats of the wild flora and fauna. Finally, the Park shelters many zones of national ecological interest , with remarkable animal and plant species, some of which are protected by law.

A rich fauna
The creation of vast reservoirs has without doubt considerably reinforced the ornithological interest of this part of the Champagne wetlands, already a favoured migratory stop by water birds because of the presence of many ponds and vast zones of humid natural meadow. More than 250 species of birds have so far, been observed on the lakes and their forest margins, among which some prestigious winged hosts, for whom the Champagne wetlands constitute the only French site for regular wintering: the white tailed eagle, Bewick and Whooper swans ...
Place of refuge also for the thousands of Cranes who stopover, a few score of Bean and Greylag geese... , falcons and other osprey... The deep forests also shelter some remarkable birds (goshawks, woodpeckers...) but it is especially the big fauna (deer, roebuck and boar) that make it important.... The list of animals in the Orient is rich, no one is in doubt: hairs, feathers and scales..., claws, beaks and teeth.
As you turn a path, you will maybe have the time to observe Mister Fox, his accomplice the Badger or Lady Marten...

A varied flora
As for the fans of plants, they will be delighted ...several hundreds of species can be found living happily here, from the most common to the rarest, from the most aquatic to the most earth bound from the most edible ... to the most beautiful and poisonous.